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Uganda unveils Africa's first solar-powered bus

As a child, Ugandan Paul Isaac Musasizi always had busy hands. He regularly pulled apart the family television, and used motors from old cassette players to make toy cars.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Glencore's Nickel Production is Expected to Grow in 2016

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Glencore has announced its 2015 annual production report, the company’s nickel production totaled 96,200 tons in 2015, down by 5% year on year, mainly due to the Sudbury smelter to suspend for 6 weeks and Koniambo refinery caused by metals l...

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

EU Roots Out China Solar Cheats In Malaysia, Taiwan

The EU is in the process of investigating claims of such violations to that agreement, and this latest development involving panels made in Malaysia and Taiwan shows the EU isattempting to stop another way the Chinese are avoiding the tariffs. The latest repor...

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Manganese Challenge is A Global Phenomenon

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Economic conditions and commodity markets move in cycles. From the early 1990s to 2004 commodity prices were relatively stable (in real terms). Since that time strong Chinese demand has driven high commodity prices.

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

105 Industrial Units Shut down in North-coastal Andhra Pradesh

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The Telugu Desam-BJP Government in Andhra Pradesh is making a big show of attracting entrepreneurs to the State for setting up new units but is making no attempt to revive the units which have been shut down in recent times for various reason...

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Japan’s special steel production expects to increase in Jan-Mar

According to Japan Economy Trade and Industry announced in January-March this year, Japan produced 4.751 million tons of special steel, an increase of 4.9% to 4.5311 million tons compared to the same period of previous quarter. Among them, Japan sold 3.2134...

Monday, February 15, 2016

Greens unveil rooftop solar plan for Australian council buildings

The Australian Greens have unveiled a new policy that would help cut local government energy bills by fitting council buildings with solar. The new policy announced by the Greens on Monday would allow solar companies to install PV panels on local government c...

Monday, February 15, 2016

Hazelwood Resources Looks to Specialty Alloys for Asian Growth

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Hazelwood Resources (ASX:HAZ) has revealed that sales from the latest production run from its ATC ferrotungsten plant in Vietnam resulted in consistently profitable margins in line with budget.

Monday, February 15, 2016
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